News
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More coverage for A Life In Death
25 May 2016
Richard Venables’ powerful new police memoir A Life In Death has been receiving lots of press coverage. The book was released last week by Thistle Publishing.
How Hillsborough disaster motivated policeman to help victims of world’s worst tragedies
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New word book to Elliott & Thompson
21 May 2016
Elliott & Thompson have commissioned a new trivia book from Paul Anthony Jones. How Rocks Became Clouds: The Surprising Evolution of 100 Words will be published for Christmas.
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Voting opens for the People's Book Prize
20 May 2016
Voting has opened for the People’s Book Prize 2016, and Chloe Banks’ debut novel The Art of Letting Go is one of the finalists (and needs your vote!).
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ITV Studios option Murder in the Family
18 May 2016
ITV Studios have optioned Jeremy Josephs’s Murder in the Family the gripping account of Jersey’s most notorious and fascinating murder case.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
18 May 2016
French rights in Cathy Glass’s Another Forgotten Child.
Polish rights in Catherine Hewitt’s The Mistress of Paris.
Chinese rights in Christopher Lloyd’s The Story of the World in 100 Species..
Korean rights in Desmond Seward’s The Hundred Years War.
Chinese rights in Desmond Seward’s Jerusalem’s Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judaea.
Slovenian rights in Shed Simove’s What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex. Polish rights in Casey Watson’s Skin Deep.
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The Floating Brothel optioned
18 May 2016
Sian Rees’s The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth Century Ship and its Cargo of Female Convicts has been optioned by Pretty Monster with support from Australian Screen.
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Without a Mother's Love serialised in Mail Online
18 May 2016
Amanda Wright’s Without a Mother’s Love written with Katy Weitz is serialised in Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3585279/Woman-witnessed-mother-s-murder-just-four-years-old-relives-horrifying-moment-saw-STRANGLED-slept-bed.html
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Guardian serial for Parliament Ltd
18 May 2016
Martin Williams’ Parliament Ltd: A Journey to the Dark Heart of British Politics is serialised in The Guardian today
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Vikie Shanks on BBC Radio
17 May 2016
Vikie Shanks, author of the inspirational memoir Unravelled, did the newspaper review on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire on Saturday. You can hear it here (starts at 38.00).
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Croatian island memoir optioned for drama
16 May 2016
Anthony Stancomb’s memoirs of moving to the Croatian island of Vis Under a Croatian Sun: From Grey Britain to a Sunny Isle: One Couple’s Dream Comes True and Notes from a Very Small Island have been optioned by Life and Soul Pictures.
